The teenage singer. who is tipped to win the show, has had to move down to London, away from her family in Blackburn, been thrown into the spotlight and subjected to regular grillings from judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

She said: “It is hard. Sometimes I do think I’m 17 and there’s so much pressure anyway growing up.”

A COUPLE will be sentenced today for supplying drugs to a “hit list” of celebrities including singer Amy Winehouse.

The charges against Johnny Blagrove, 34, and his 22-year-old girlfriend Cara Burton were triggered by a video secretly shot of the troubled Grammy award singer apparently smoking a crack pipe at a party in her flat.

No charges were brought against Winehouse in relation to the video through lack of evidence.

FLIP-flops are to be given to drunk women to prevent them injuring themselves when wearing high heels, police have said.

Officers in Torquay, Devon, said sometimes female revellers wear “inappropriate” footwear and can either fall or take their shoes off and risk cutting their feet.